Water and Sanitation Program - Africa Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF)



Contract partner: IBRD - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Country: Subsahara-Afrika, regional/länderübergreifend Funding amount: € 1.200.000,00 Project start: 01.07.2012 End: 31.12.2015

Short Description:

Overall goal


This grant is a continuation of the collaboration between the Austrian Development Agency and the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) agreed upon in contract 2621-00/2009. The grant provides core funding to the work program for WSP-Africa region over a period of three and a half fiancial years (FY 2012/13, FY 2013/14, FY 2014/15, half FY2015/16). WSP's intervention complements ADC's bilateral involvement in the water sector, mainly in Uganda but also in Mozambique, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso.


The Water and Sanitation Program’s (WSP) five-year business plan covers FY 11/12 to 15/16

and lays out the strategic activities through which WSP assists countries in scaling up access to

water and sanitation services to the poor. WSP’s business plan identifies six Global Business

areas which are:

1. Scaling Up Rural Sanitation and Hygiene

2. Creating Sustainable Services through Domestic Private Sector Participation (DPSP)

3. Supporting Poor-Inclusive WSS Sector Reform

4. Targeting the Urban Poor and Improving Services in Small Towns

5. Mitigating and Adapting WSS Service Delivery to Climate Change Impacts

6. Delivering WSS Services in Fragile States


This grant will support WSP-Africa's regional work program. WSP’s focus is to address the huge gaps in access and sustainability of services. The emphasis is to increase access, strengthen the efficiency and improve service reliability for the large numbers of poor populations in these countries, who comprise the majority of the un-served. WSP-Africa's regional work program is engaged in all business areas of the 5-years business plan with exception of business area 5 on mitigating of and adapting to climate change.


WSP believes that improved water and sanitation services and hygiene practices are key to achieving the MDGs on poverty reduction, health, gender equality, and the environment. Gender and Environment Assessments of contract 2621-00/2009 remain unchanged.

project number 2621-01/2012
source of funding OEZA
sector Wasserversorgung und sanitäre Einrichtungen
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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